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THE WEEKLY LEDGER; GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY 23, 189«. k SINFUL RETICENCE. fttV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A PRAC TICAL AND SUGGESTIVE SERMON. er a season of great despondency about his soul and Christ had s; 'ken pardon, to write that iunnort . l hymn : inil - (<> tml the Redeemed of the Lord Say So. Public Profession of Christ — An Elo quent Confession—Conversion of Rev. Dr. Vnlmage. Washington, Jan. 19. — Rev. Dr. Talmage never produced a more prac tical and suggestive sermon than this of today. We believe it will stir Christen dom. His subject was “Say So,’’ and the text selected was Psalms evii, 2, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.’’ An overture, an antiphon, a doxology ia this chapter, and in my text David calls for an outspoken religion and re quests all who have been rescued and blessed no longer to hide the splendid facts, but to recite them, publish them and as far as possible let all the world know about it. “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. ” There is a sinful reti cence which has been almost canonized. The people are quite as outspoken as they ought to bo ou all subjects of poli tics" and are fluent and voluble on the Venezuelan question and bimetallism and tariffs high and low and remodeled and female suffrage, and you have to skillfully watch your chance if you want to put into the active conversation a modest suggestion of your own, but on the subject of divine goodness, reli gious experience and eternal blessedness they are not only silent, but boastful of their reticence. Now, if you have been redeemed of the Lord, why do you not say so? If you have in your heart the pearl of great price, worth more than the Kohinoor among Victorian jewels, why not let other see it? If you got off the wreck in the breakers, why not toll of the crew and the stout lifeboat tjiat safely landed yon? If from the forfth story yon are rescued in time of coifla- gration, why not tell of the fireman aid ths ladder down which he carried ycu? If you have a mansion in heaven awni- iug you, why not show the deed to tho« who may by the same process get at •merald castle ou the same boulevard Oh, for a tho My groat Hi i Op.'M It was after A been eomfor d . bright boy of t!:r said, ‘1 now k< preciousness of UlR ^praiM! «iou. u Lincoln had ■ t oi . 1, t be , that he ■ a.; never before tho (bid’s love in Jesus Christ and how we are brought near to God as our Father by him. ’’ What a thrill went through tho meet ing in Portland, (Jr., when an ox attor ney general of the United States arose and said: “Last night I go; up and asked the prayers of God’s people. I feel now perfectly satisfied. Tho burden is rolled off and all gone, and I feel that I could ruu or fly into the arms of Jesus Christ.” What a record for all time and eter nity was made by Gellacius, the play actor, in the theater at Heliopolis. A burlesque oi Christianity was put upon the stage. In derision of tho ordinance of baptism a bathtub filled with water was put upon the stage, and another ac tor, in awful blaspln my, dipped Gella- cius, pronouncing over him tho words,“I baptize thee in the name of the Father, of the Sou and of tho Holy Ghost. ” But coming forth from the burlesque bap tism ho looked changed and was changed, and he cried out to the audi ence: “I am a Christian. I will die as a Christian. ” Though he was dragged out and stoned to death, they could not drown the testimony made under such awful circumstances: “I am a Chris tian. I will die as a Christ ; m. ” “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” What a confirmation would come if all who had answers to prayers would speak out; if all merchants in tight places because of hard times would tell how in response to supplication they got the money to pay tho note; if all farmers ia time of drought would tell how in an swer t " prayer the rain came just in time to save the crop; if all parents who prayed for a wandering son to come home would tell how not long after they heard the boy’s hand on the latch of the font door! Samuel Hick, an English Methodist *7 the last two words of my text David' preacher, solicited aid fur West India caUtf upon all of us who have received missions from a rich miser and failed, any mercy at tho hand of God to stop! Then the minister dropped on his knees, impersonating tho asylums for the dumb and tho miser said, “I will give thee a and iu the presence of men, women, guinea if thou wilt give over. ” But tho arqjels, devils and all worlds “say so. ” miuister continued to pray, until tho Experience. miser said, “1 will give then 2 guineas In thoqjK C - 4 „ary days, thousands of jif thou wilt give over.” Then the inou- Hainisters^.- J private Christians are wondering about the best ways of start ing a revival of religion. I can tell you a way of starting a revival, continental, hemispheric and worldwide. You say a revival starts in heaven. Well, it starts in heaven just as a prosperous harvest •tarts in heaven. The sun must, shine and the rains must descend, but unless you plow and sow and cultivate the earth you will not raise a bushel of wheat or a peck of corn bet ween now and the cud of the world. How, then, shall a uni versal revival start: By all Christian people telling tho story of their own con version. Lot ten men and’women get up next week in your prayer meeting and, not in a conventional or canting or dole ful way, but iu tho same tone they em ploy iu the family or place of business, tell how they crossed tho line, and the revival will begin then and there, if the prayer meeting has not been so dull ns to drive out all except those concern ing whom it was foreordained from all eternity that they should bo there. There are ho many different ways of being con verted that we want to hoar all kinds, ho that our own case may be helped. It always puts mo back to hear only one kind of experience, such as a man gives when he tolls of his Pauline conversion —how he was knocked senseless, and then had a vision and heard voices, and after a certain number of days of horror got up and shouted for joy. All that dis courages mo, for I was never knocked senseless, and I never had such a sudden burst of religious rapture that I lost my equilibrium. But after awhile a Chris tian man got up in some meeting and told us how ho was brought up by a de vout parentage, and had always been thoughtful about religious things, and gradually tho peace of the gospel came into his soul like the dawn of the morn ing—no perceptiblo difference between moment and moment—but after awhile all perturbation settled down into a hope that had consoled and strengthened him during nil the vicissitudes of a life time. I said, “That is exhilarating; that was my experience. ” And so I was ■trengthonod. In another prayer meeting a ^an got up and told us how ho once hated God and went through all the round of in iquity until wo were all on nettles lest he should go too much into tho particu lars, but one day ho was by some reli gious power hurled flat and then got up a Christian and hud over since been go ng around with a Baxter Bible with <urgo flaps under his arm, a floating evangelist. Well, under this story many are not helped at all, for they know they never hated God, and they were never dissolute. But after awhile some Christian woman arises and says, “I have nothing extraordinary to tell, yet I think tho cares of life, the anxieties about my children and two graves opened iu onr family plot made me feel the need of God, and weak and helpless and hoartbrokou I flung myself upon his mercy, and I feel what the Bible calls the ‘peace of God which passeth all understanding, ’ and I ask your prayers that I may live nearer to the Christ who has done so much forme.” I declare that before that woman got through we were all crying, not bitter^ tears of joyful emotion, days in that uoighborhc bad gone out of the river time frouhet of salvation* deemed Dy was taken to the; ini.-, it u;uy me ting. ph, tho power of prayer! Melanehthon, ittorly discouraged, was parsing along i place where children were In ard pray- bg, and he came back, f aying, “Breth- en, take courage; the children are pray- Dgforus. ” Nothing can stand before raycr. An infidi 1 came into a Lihlo lass to ask puzzling questions. Many of bo neighbors came in to hear the dis- assion. The infidel arose and said to »o leader of the Bible class, “1 hear iu allow questions asked. ” “Oil, yes,” <ld tho leader, “but at tho start let. us u'el down and ask God to guide us. ” “h, no,” said the infidel. “1 did not Cli 0 to pray; I came to discuss.” “^t,” said the leader, “you will, of cono, submit to our rule, and that is al'Vsto begin with prayer. ” The lead- © r Kit in prayer, and then arose and eaido the infidel, “Now you pray. ” The replied, “I cannot pray. 1 have) (^od to pray to. Let mo go! Let mo go q’jK, spectators, who expected f un > And nothing but overpowering solcmty, and a revival started, and among\ )0 jj rs t who were brought iu was theq;,],.] That prayer did it. In all our Ks there have been times when wo felt tv prayer was answered. Then let us say, Outfvpokenncsft. There lip r g on this side of tho river that dividq ar t]i ami heaven, ready at any time tcross over, tho apostle of prayer for t century, Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier, i founder of (ho Fulton street prayeVeting, and if ho should put on his tetadcs and read this I salute him more qualified than any man since Bi times in demonstrating what prayer < q,,. Dear Brother Lan phier! The h leavens are full of his fame. Havingm )nU( !od a meeting for 12 o’clock, SeRj.'j, ih.'j?, ho sat iu the upper room on \ton street, New York, waiting for pee CO mo. Ho waited for a half hourL] then a footfall was heard on the st. ;,n(l after awhile in all six persons aq.d, but tho next day 20, and the nexW 40 UI1( i f nm , that time to this, fearer 118 years, every day, Sabbath €*,,0,1, that Fulton street prayer imk^. ] K , S i, een a p] a co whore people huvi-od prayer and an swers to prayer h b,,,.,, announced, and the throb of threat heart of sup plication has thrill not only into tho heavens, but clearUnd tho world, more than any spotloarth. That has been tho place w lit the redeemed of he Lord said so! Let the same o^kenness be em ployed toward tboaiwhom wo have been personally arilged. Wo wait until they are dcadt ( ,ro wo say so. Your parents have piq for your best interests all these 4. They may Bomotimos, their noi^ Kystmu used up by tho cures, theta, the disap- pointmeuts, the worrlfa 0 f life, bo more irritable than 1 ong it to bo, and they probably hi fan Its which have become oppressi4 the years go by. But those eyes, 1 before they took ou spectacles, W'Vutching for your welfare, and tin ‘ smooth and much m< than once, have done good day's work. Life more of a struggle thal u will ever know about, and much |io struggle has been for you, and are wrapped up in your never appreciate. Have you by word or fxprossod your thanks? ( ~ite get up to :.ay it fat ■ written it in some ? The time will so* 1 ho gone out of y-.n I will not hear, and see. If you owe th nds, not as eeply lined pou many a on to them inch they 0 you will behavior qu cannot * ; VU1, IKJVi of deed or ai:v woi Is of appreciation, why do yon nut say so? L av much we might all of us save ourselves iu tho matter of regret:* ii we did not delay un til too la*o an ox]ire* ion of oMnzation that would have mane the la •* is of earthly life mere uU’.uH ve. The grave is doaT, and fpitj:; on cold marble cannot make repanuion. In conjugal life tho honeymoon is soon past, and the twain lake it for granted that each is thoroughly under stood. How dependent ou each other they become, and tho years go by, and perhaps nothing is said to make tho other fully understand Unit sense of de pendence. Impatient w«irds sometimes come forth, and motives ::ro misinter preted, and it is taken as a matter of course that the two will walk the path of life side by side until about tho same time their journey shall bo ended, but some sudden and appalling illness un loosens the right hands that were clasped years before at the altar of orange blos soms, the parting takes place, and among tho worst of all the sorrows is that you did not oftener, if you ever did at nil, tell her or tell him how indis pensable she was or how indispensable he was to your happiness, and that in some plain, square talk long ago you did not ask for forgiveness for infirmities and neglects, and by sumo unlimited ut terance make it understood that you fully appreciated tho fidelity and re-en forcement of many years. Alas, how many such have to lament tho rest of their lives, “Oh, it 1 had only said so!” Let the Redeemed Suy :•'<>. My subject takes a \vid< r range. The Lord has hundreds of thousands of pim ple among those who have never joined his army because of some high ideal of what a Christian should bo or because of a fear that they may not hold out or because of a spirit of procrastination. They have never publicly professed Christ. They have is much right to llio sacraments and as much right to all the privileges of the church as thousands who have for years been enrolli d in church membership, and yet they have made no positive utterance by which tho world may know they love (iod and are ou the road to heaven. I hoy are re deemed of tho Lord and yet do not say so. Oh, what an augmentation it would be if by some divine impulse all those outsiders should become insiders. I tell you what would bring them to their right places, and perhaps nothing else will—days of persecution. If they were compelled to take sides us between Christ and his enemies, they would take the side of Christ, and the fagots and the instruments of torture and the anath emas of all earth and hell would not make them blanch. Martyrs are made out of such stuff as they are. But lot them not wait for such days as I pray to God may never come. Drawn by the sense of fairness and justice and obliga tion, let them show their colors. Let the redeemed of tho Lord say so. This chapter from which I take my text mentions several classes of persons who ought to bo out.-pi ken, among them all those who go on a journey. What an opportunity you have, you who spendso much of your time on rail trains or on shipboard, whether on lake 01 river or sea! Spread the story of God’s goodness and your own redemption wherever you go. You will have many a long ride beside some one whom you will never see again, some one who is waiting for one word of rescue or con solation. Make every rail train and steamer a moving palace of saved souls. Casual conversations have harvested a great host for God. There are many Christian workers in pulpits, in mission stations, in .Sabbath schools, iu unheard of places who are do ing their host for God and without any recognition. They go and come, and no one cheers them. Perhaps all tho reward they get is harsh criticism, or repulse, or their own fatigue. If you have ovei heard of any good they have done, let them know about it. If you find some one benefited by their alms, or their prayers, or their cheering word, go and tell them. They may bo almost ready to give up their mission. They may be al most iu despair because of the seeming lack of results. One word from you may bo an ordination that will start them on the chief work of their lifetime. A Christian woman said to her pastor: “My usefulness is done. I do not know why my life is spared any longer, be cause I can do no good. ” Then tho pas tor replied, “Yon do me gnat good ev ery habbath. ” Shoasked, “Howdol-do you any good?” ami ho replied, “In the first place, you are always iu y<iur seat in the church, and that helps me, and in the second place you are always wide awake and alert, looking right up into my face, and that helps me, and in the third place I often see tears running down your cheeks, and that helps me.” What a good thing ho did net wait until she was dead before ho said so! Why Not Erstow Eraine? There mo hundreds of ministers who javo hard work to maka sermons be cause no one expresses any nppn ciatiou. They ere afraid of making him vain. Tho moment the benedict ion is pro nounced they turn on their heels and go out. Perhaps it was a subject on which he had put especial pains. He sought for the right text, and then did Ids best to put the (dd thought into some new shape. He had prayed that it in.ght go to tho hearts of the people, lie had added to the argument the most vivid illustra tions lie could think of. He had deliver ed all with a power that left him nerv ously exhausted. Five hundred people may have been blessed by it and resolved upon a higher life and nobler purposes. Yet all ho hears is tho clank of tho pew door, or the shuflling of feet in the aisle, or some remark about tin 1 weather, the last resort of inanity. Why did not that man come up and say frankly, “You havo'dom* mo good?” Why did not some woman come up and say, “I ■hall go home to take up the burden of !y?” Why did not ssioual limn come up and say: 'iminie, for that good ad 0 it. God bless you.” tell bin bo? 1 have 4 | ^ W», in the nervous loac- < tion that come- to some after the de livery of a sermon with no seeming re sult, to go homo and roll on tho floor iu agony. But to make up for this lack of out spoken reli:; r a there needs to ho and will bo a great day when, amid the so Icmnit cs and gramleuts of a listening universe, God will “say so. ” No statis tics can state how many mothers have rocked cradles and hovered over infan tile sicknesses and brought up their families to manhood and womanhood and launched them upon useful and suc cessful lives, and yet never received one “Thank you ’ that amounted to any thing. Tho daughters became queens in social life or were affianced iu highest realms of prosperity; tho sons took tho first honors of tho university and became radiant iu monetary or professional spheres. Now the secret of all that up lifted maternal influence must come out. Society did not say so; the church did not say so; tho world did not say so, but on that day of all other days, the last day, (-iod will say so. There are men to whom life is a grind and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to bo overcome, accidental environments to be endured, appalling opposition to be met and conquered, and they never so much as had a rose pinned to their coat lapel iu admiration. They never had a suing dedicated to their name. They never had a book presented to them with a complimentary word ou tho fly leaf. All they have to show for their lifetime battle is scars. But in the last day tho story will come out, and that life will be put iu holy and transcendent rhythm, and their courage and persist ence and faith and victory will not only bo announced but rewarded. “These are they that came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. ” God will say so! Wo miss one of tho chief ideas of a last judgment. Wo put into tho picture the fire, and the smoko, and the earth quake, and the descending angels, and tho uprising dead, but wo omit to put into tho picture that which makes the last judgment a magnificent oppurtu- uity. Wo omit the fact that it is to boa day of glorious explanation and com mendation. Tho first justice that mil lions of unrewarded and unrecognized and unappreciated men and women get will bo ou that day, when services that U' ver called forth so much as a newspa per line of finest pearler diamond type, as tho printers term it, shall be called up for coronation. That will he the day of uithrquemeut for thoso whom the world called “nobodies.” Joshua, who commanded the sun and moon to stand still, needs no last judgment to got jus tice done him, but thoso men do need a last judgment who at times in all armi< s, under tho most violent assault, in obedience to command themselves stood still. Deborah, who encouraged Barak to bravery in battle against the oppressors of Israel, needs no last judg ment to get justice done her, for thou sands of years have clapped her ap plause. But tho wives who in all ages have encouraged their husbands in the ha.ties of life, women whose names were hardly known beyond the next street or the next farmhouse, must have Go.I say to them: “ You did well. You did gloriously. 1 saw you down in that dairy. 1 watched you in tho old farm house moaning those children’s clothes. I heard what you said in tho way o. cheer when the breadwinner of the household was in despair. 1 romembei all the sick cradles you have sung to. I remember (lie backaches, tho headaches, tho heartaches. I know the story of your knitting needle as well as I know the story of a queen’s scepter. Your castle on the heavenly hill is all ready for you. (Jo up and take it.” And turning to tho.surprised multitudes of heaven ho will say, “She did what she could.” God will say so. IViKoiiitl Experience. And now I close with giving my own personal testimony, fur 1 must not en join upon others that which I decline myself to do. Born at Bound Brook, N. J., of a parentage as pious as the world oversaw, 1 attest before earth and heav en that I have always felt tho elevating and restraining influence of having had a good father and a good mother, and if I am able to do half as well for my children as tho old folks did for me I will bo thankful forever. The years of my life passed ou until, at about 18 years of ago, i felt the pressure of eter nal realities, and after prayer and reli gious counsel I passed into what I t ook to he a saved slate and joined the church, and I attest before earth and heaven that I have found it a most helpful and inspiring association. I like the com- punionsliip s > well that I cannot bo sat isfied if 1 have u day less of it lliau all eternity. After graduating at collegiate and theological institutions 1 had the hands of 10 or 12 good men put upon my head in solemn ordination, at Belle ville, N. J., and 1 attest before earth and neaven that the work of the gospel min istry lias been delightful, and I expect to preach until my last hour. Many times 1 have passed through deep water of bereavement and but for the divino promise of heavenly reunion i would have gone under, hut 1 attest before earth and heaven that the comfort of the go.-pel is high, deep, glorious, eternal. Many times have i been maligned and my work micreproscuted, but all such falsehood and persecution have turned out for my advantage and enlarged my work, and 1 attest before earth and heaven that God has fulfilled to me tho promises, “Lo! I uin with you alway,” and “The gates of hell shall not prevail against yon. ” For the cheer of younger men in all departments let 1110 say you will come out all right if you mind your own busi ness and are patient. The assault of the world is only being rubbed down by a rough Turkish towel, and it improves the circulation and makes one m< rovig- ormiM While the future holds for 1110 many mysteries which I do not pretend to solve, 1 am living in expectation that when my poor work is done, 1 shall go through tho gates and meet my Lord and all my kindred who have preceded me, a precious group whom I miss more and more as the years goby, a::d I attest be fore earth and heaven that 11: • glories of tho heavenly world illu one my path way. In courts of law tec wi:ue.ss may kiss the Bible or lift his rigid hand in oath, hut as I have often ho d tho dear old book 1 now lift my i ..;lit hand and take oa ii by him that liv ih forever and ever that God is good, and that the gos pel is a mighty consolation in days of trouble, and that tho best friend a man ever had is Jesus, and that heaven is ab solutely sure to thoso who trust and serve the blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory and dominion and victory and song and chorus of white robed immor tals, standing on seas of glass mingled with lire. Aineu and amen! Fungous Dist-asn Among Chinch Hugs. There have been sent to Illinois fann ers about 4,000 packages of material for tho spread of tho fungous disease among chinch bugs from the office of the state entomologist. The reports received and the experiments tried at tho experiment station farm are not encouraging as to the general efficacy of this method of destroying tho bugs, especially in dry weather. It will bo remembered that, unlike Dr. Snow’ of Kansas, Professor Forbes has never been sanguine in re gard to this distribution method, al ways insisting that some harrier and trap method should be used either in preference or in addition to efforts to secure the spread of disease among tho bugs. While less has been written on tho subject than in former years, it seems clear that the bugs are more gen orally distributed over the. state than they have been formally years, and that in many places they are as plentiful and have done as much harm as in any for mer year.—Prairie Farmer. New Uses For Molasses. Molasses lias been used as a stock feed for distilling purposes, and now’ it is being used for the additional purposes of paving, for mortar aid as a lining for furnaces At a recent meeting of tho sugar planters of Louisiana, and report ed upon in the Texas Farm and Ranch, these uses of molasses were fully discussed, and the fact was developed that mixed with clean sand in proper proportion it made a lending material ;!•* adhesive and more elastic than ce ment, and that several experiments had been made in furnaces by coating com mon bricks with molasses mortar, and using tin 111 for furnaces instead of fire- brick. and that all tests wore satisfac tory The only thing Licking is a thor ough test of durability, which of course requires tune. Superiority of Clover. The superiority of clover over timothy never perhaps was more apparent in Ohio than during the present season. The former stood the May freezes and the severe drought following better and has yielded double the amount of feed that timothy does. Another very im portant item in its favor is its forti liz mg property. At least ten bushels move of corn per acre can be raised with Less work for man and beast on a clover than on a timothy sod. Its freedom from llie ravages of worms is another strung point.— American Agriculturist. A I’owerl'ul Hurniiig fJlass. The most p weiTul sunglass ever c on- strueted in Franco was that made un der the supervision of tho savant M. do Villette. This glass generated Ineat sufficient to meltia copper coin of tho size of our KilviT*2i> cent piece in seconds. George Parker-of Fleet street, Lou don, made a glass much more powerful than that which resulted from the Frenchman's efforts. Parker’s was th reo feet in diameter and so powerful thu ; it was actually used to melt substances which were too refractory for tho f .ir- uaces. 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